Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Fellowship 2025-2026 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: March 31, 2025

Applications are open for the Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Fellowship 2025-2026. Named for the “mother of African-American journalism,” this system was launched in 2022 to offer latest graduates, mid-profession alums and former college students of Historically Black Colleges and Universities with yearlong, salaried fellowships with full advantages in reporting, viewers engagement and information product administration.

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Fellows will spend a yr working in reporting, viewers engagement and product administration roles with full-time salaries and advantages, made attainable by the beneficiant help of Michelle Mercer and Bruce Golden. Fellows are embedded of their respective groups and obtain mentorship {and professional} improvement. They additionally present profession teaching to arrange fellows for his or her path after their fellowship.

Benefits

• $1,500 advantage bonus halfway by means of the fellowship
• $1,000 skilled improvement stipend, which earlier fellows have used to do on-line programs or attend journalism conferences
• $480 work-from-home stipend and $480 wellness stipend ($960 complete) paid over the course of the yr
• $100/month for coworking area membership (non-compulsory)
• Mac laptop computer, which fellows preserve after the fellowship ($1,300-$1,500 worth)
• Access to the fellowship’s hardship fund (as much as $5,000 per fellow)
• Membership to the National Association of Black Journalists and attendance to their annual conference and profession honest
• A mentor of their fellowship observe by means of the Digital Women Leaders community

Fellows may also be eligible for many nineteenth employment advantages, together with:

• Vacation Time Off (20 days per yr)
• Sick Time Off (10 days per yr)
• Personal Days (6 days per yr)
• Paid Holidays (20 days in 2024)
• Paid Family Leave (100% as much as 6 months)
• Caregiver depart (100% as much as 4 months)
• 401(ok) Plan (as much as 3.5% matching on 6% contribution)
• Flexible Spending Plan (for qualifying medical or child care bills)
• Health Savings Account
• Health, imaginative and prescient, and dental insurance coverage (100% coated by The nineteenth for worker/60% for dependents)
• Long Term and Short Term Disability insurance coverage
• Life insurance coverage
• Company expense account

Eligibility

• Applicants ought to be latest graduate (inside two years of commencement), early-profession (three to 4 years’ expertise) or mid-profession alum (5-10 years’ expertise) of a Historically Black College or University;
• A graduating senior of a Historically Black College College or University with a commencement date previous to the anticipated fellowship begin date of October 2024;
• An particular person who attended a Historically Black College or University for at the very least two years, and both transferred or didn’t graduate;
• All candidates should be legally approved to work within the United States. This can embrace conditional pupil/work visas, supplied The nineteenth won’t be required to take extra steps in sponsorship.

Eligible candidates also needs to have the next:

• Some related expertise of their chosen fellowship observe
• A real curiosity in rising their profession in journalism
• Alignment with the nineteenth’s values and neighborhood pointers

Application

When submitting an application, potential fellows might want to submit the next:

• A canopy letter explaining why you need to work at The nineteenth, how their mission aligns together with your profession objectives and pursuits and what influence this fellowship program would have in your profession objectives
• Your résumé
• Relevant samples of your work

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Fellowship.